Real estate investment for defined contribution plans--an analysis by Doran, Pietro A. (Pietro Augusto)

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Should defined contribution plans include private equity investments by Brown, GW, Crouch, KJ, Ghent, A, Harris, RS, Hochberg, YV, Jenkinson, T, Kaplan, SN, Maxwell, R, Robinson, DT

“…This paper evaluates the pros and cons of including private equity fund investments in defined contribution plans. Potential benefits include higher returns and improved diversification as well as a relatively safe method for accessing investments previously only available to institutions and the very wealthy. …”

Portability, Salary and Asset Price Risk: A Continuous-Time Expected Utility Comparison of DB and DC Pension Plans by An Chen, Filip Uzelac

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Factors Associated with Employees' Choice of Mandatory Retirement Plan: The Case of Malaysian Public Universities by Habibah Tolos, Arpah Abu Bakar, Muhammad Bashir Owolabi Yusuf

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Optimal Investment Strategy for DC Pension Schemes under Partial Information by Manli Ban, Hua He, Xiaoqing Liang

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Effects of Private Pension Funds to Emergent Markets by Iulia Ban

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Determinants of retirement savings by Yusof, Radduan, Sabri, Mohamad Fazli

“…This is to encourage contributors to the retirement fund to switch focus from a less generous pension-guaranteed-defined benefit system to a more individualistic-defined contribution plan. This review article collected, compiled, and reviewed selected articles on the determinants of retirement savings and planning. …”
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Determinants of retirement savings by Yusof, Radduan, Sabri, Mohamad Fazli

“…This is to encourage contributors to the retirement fund to switch focus from a less generous pension-guaranteed-defined benefit system to a more individualistic-defined contribution plan. This review article collected, compiled, and reviewed selected articles on the determinants of retirement savings and planning. …”
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Optimal Choice between Defined Contribution and Cash Balance Pension Schemes: Balancing Interests of Employers and Workers by Vanessa Hanna, Pierre Devolder

“…To address these diverse needs, the defined contribution plan managed with participating life insurance (DC-PL) and the cash balance plan managed with unit-linked insurance (CB-UL) serve as suitable choices. …”
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Defined contribution pension plans : mutual fund asset allocation changes by Sialm, Clemens, Starks, Laura, Zhang, Hanjiang

“…We find that defined contribution plans react more sensitively to these conditions, suggesting effects on mutual fund managers and other investors.…”
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Insuring individuals… and politicians: Financial services providers, stock market risk and the politics of private pension guarantees in Germany by Naczyk, M, Hassel, A

“…Using the case of the introduction of Germany’s ‘Riester-Rente’, we argue that, as politicians linked the introduction of private defined-contribution plans with cuts in statutory pensions, the re-emergence of a high-salience, social policy image of pensions helped insurance firms’ and some trade unionists’ case for minimum guarantees to prevail, thereby hindering equity market development in Germany.…”

Accounting standards and German supplementary pensions: the emergent framework underpinning global finance by Mansfield, D, Tickell, A, Clark, G

“…Noting the connection between accounting standards and global capital markets, we identify the implications of harmonization of German supplementary pension and retirement benefit systems for the mechanisms of financing benefits, the valuation of assets and liabilities, and the advantages and disadvantages of defined benefit as opposed to defined contribution plans. In combination, we show that historical differences between the Anglo-American system of corporate governance and the German system of entrenched management within interlocking boards of supervision and the representation of stakeholders' interests are now less compelling than assumed.…”

Emergent frameworks in global finance: accounting standards and German supplementary pensions by Clark, G, Mansfield, D, Tickell, A

“…Noting the connection between accounting standards and global capital markets, we identify the implications of harmonization of German supplementary pension and retirement benefit systems for the mechanisms of financing benefits, the valuation of assets and liabilities, and the advantages and disadvantages of defined benefit as opposed to defined contribution plans. In combination, we show that historical differences between the Anglo-American system of corporate governance and the German system of entrenched management within interlocking boards of supervision and the representation of stakeholders' interests are now less compelling than assumed.…”

Improving on Defaults: Helping Pension Participants Manage Financial Market Risk in Target Date Funds by John A. Turner, Bruce W. Klein

“…Target date funds are commonly used as the default investment in defined contribution plans in the U.S., UK and other countries. …”
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Retirement income, bequests, and insurance : implications of mortality risk in a stochastic life cycle model by Brown, Jeffrey R. (Jeffrey Robert), 1968-

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